10 People Who Are Also Going to Burning Man

Burning Man has been roughed up in the press lately. We jokingly declared the annual dust-and-drugs meet-up dead when anti-high tax lobbyist Grover Norquist tweeted that he would be attending this year’s festival, and The New York Times’s Nick Bilton took a deep dive into how wealthy technology moguls and wannabes are transforming the desert gathering, in a hilarious piece published last week. Teasing “burners” has become so mainstream that even news of inclement weather on the “playa” was met with scores of gleeful tweets about how even “God hates Burning Man.”

But let’s be honest: regular, probably good people are among the 60,000 or so who make the trip each year. We checked Twitter for the phrase “is going to Burning Man,” and discovered 10 non-tech types who are probably setting up camp in the Black Rock Desert as you read this article.

1. A therapist

I think I just figured out that my therapist is going to burning man and that’s why she cancelled and now I’m questioning every appt ever.